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Jacques Dallaire (2006)
Dan Marisi and Jacques Dallaire - Builders All
Daniel Marisi was born and raised in Saskatoon where, as a teenager, he
gained considerable fame as an athlete (football, basketball, and
wrestling). He got his master's degree in phys-ed at Saskatchewan and then a
PhD in educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He
joined the Department of Physical Education at McGill in 1971 and helped
define the department's curriculum in motor learning, sport psychology, and
research methodology. Jacques Dallaire was born in Oshawa and spent most of
his early teenage years at nearby Mosport Park. He got his master's in
exercise science at the University of Ottawa and his PhD in exercise
psychology at the University of Alberta. He joined McGill, where he met
Marisi, and in 1983 they co-founded the McGill Motor Sport Research Group.
From '83 through '99, they guided the mental training of nearly 500
high-performance racers from 35 countries, including 60 Canadians (Ron
Fellows, Miguel Duhamel, Patrick Carpentier, Greg Moore and Scott Goodyear,
among them). They were founding members of the International Council of
Motorsport Sciences and their understanding of the role of physical
conditioning and cognitive function, the limits of the human body and the
opportunity to improve contributed in many ways to the significant
developments in driver safety seen in recent years. In 1999, Dan Marisi died
and Jacques Dallaire was faced with some difficult choices. In the end, he
remained true to the vision created by the two of them. Since then, Jacques
has made many television appearances to talk about their work and numerous
TV and magazine features have focused on the work of Marisi and Dallaire.
More about this member :: Back to top John De Gruchy (2005)
John De Gruchy began his motorcycle racing career in 1957, entering Trials events in Southern Ontario. By the time he stopped, in 1974, he had won more than 100 Canadian Motorcycle Association and American Motorcycle Association events. He was a six-time Canadian national Trials champion - the first coming in 1960 and the last in 1971. He was also proficient at Scrambles and was an Expert Class rider in road racing. His involvement as a racer inevitably led to his long-term commitment to the policy making process within the C.M.A. and he held various executive positions until his retirement at the end of 1975. He was president of the C.M.A. Ontario Region for six years during the 1960s and EARLY '70s and vice-president twice. Mr. De Gruchy co-authored the C.M.A. Training Course program in 1966 to introduce new riders to the sport. He was a member of the C.M.A.'s national executive for seven years and was national president in 1967, Canada's Centennial year. His involvement as president resulted in Canada being awarded an FIA-sanctioned World Championship Motorcycle Grand Prix, which was held at Mosport in the summer of 1967, and won by Mike Hailwood. It was Canada's first, and only, motorcycle Grand Prix. Three times, in 1969, 1970 and 1972, he was awarded the Ontario Achievement Award for his contributions to amateur sport.
More about this member :: Back to top Ross de St. Croix (1994)
Winning the 1967 Canadian Championship was the personal centennial project of Eustace Sousy. He bought a McLaren and, wisely, picked Ross de St Croix to drive it. Ross enjoyed great success in every car he ever drove, from MG's to the ex-Miss Whiz Lola. But he also contributed greatly to the sport as the President of the Canadian Automobile Sports Club (CASC) and President of the Montreal Motor Racing Club.
More about this member :: Back to top Trevor Deeley (1995)
A good motorcycle racer himself, Trevor Deeley's real claim to fame was having the foresight to see the motorcycle revolution in the early 1960's. Deeley publicized the Hondas he sold by hiring some of the best young riders in Canada including Canadian champions Jim Allen, Jim Duncan and Yvon Duhamel. As a Yamaha distributor, Deeley put together a team that won the world superbike championship in 1976.
More about this member :: Back to top Jacob DeRosier (2001)
Jacob De Rosier is considered one of the greatest motorcycle racing champions of the 20th century.Sponsored by Indian Motorcycle and later Excelsior, De Rosier was the fastest rider in the U.S in the early 1900's. Born in Quebec in 1880, he moved with his family to the U.S. when he was four. Facinated with motorocycles, De Rosier persuaded Frenchman Henri Fournier, who brought the first bicycle pacing machines to the U.S., to let him ride one of the motor pacers. Impressed with his natural ability, Fournier hired him to ride the machine in the Paris races and thus started De Rosier's professional career. While becoming one of the best pacing riders in the world, he met Indian co-founder, Oscar Hedstrom, which later led to De Rosier's long relationship with Indian Motorcycles. He raced Indian Motorcycle machines in the endurance runs and bicycle velodrome track races becoming the top rider at the 1908 Federation ofAmerican Motorcyclists (FAM). This led to a full-time racing contract with Indian and from that point forward, he won races nearly every weekend earning most of his victories on the newly built Los Angeles Motordome in the 100-mile record trials. De Rosier's popularity was so great that track promoter and builder, Jack Prince, hired him to race at the opening of many of the board tracks being built across the country. In an amazing show of dominance De Rosier held every FAM speed record for professional riders by the end of 1911 forcing hhim to search out new challenges.He travelled to Great Britain and became the first American rider to compete in the Isle of Man TT setting the fastest qualifiying speed and finishing an amazing 12th only to be disqualified for outside assistance. After leading the first lap, he began losing his tools and spares on the rough course and was forced to borrow a spark plug to complete the race after crashing out. But the loss was minor as De Rosier won the hearts of British motoracing fans who adored his magnetic style. On March 12, 1912, while racing for Excelsior, De Rosier sustained serious injuries in a match race at the Los Angeles Motordrome. De Rosier rallied after an operation on his severly broken leg, but he never fully recovered. He returned to home to Massachusetts for a third operation , but died of complications on February 25, 1913, at the age of 33.Hundreds attended his funeral and Indian flew flags at half-mast and ceased production for five minutes tohonour the greatly loved motorcycle racer. De Rosier won nearly 900 races during his racing career and was considered one of the most daring racers of his era. He raced everything from the early single-cylinder motor bicycles to the full-fledged motorcycles capable of triple-digit speeds.The motorcycle magazines of the time call him the most famous racer the sport had ever known.
More about this member :: Back to top John Duff (2006)
Competitor Oval and Road Racing
John Duff was born to Canadian parents in China in 1895. At a young age, he
was sent to their hometown of Hamilton, Ont., where he stayed till he was 16
before returning to China. After the First World War, in which he was
wounded while fighting for England, he learned to drive. A year later, in
1920, he started to race. Over the next six years, he became one of only two
Canadians who raced and won on England's famous Brooklands Motor Course (Kay
Petre, an honourable member of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame, is the
other). He also was overall winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and scored a
top ten finish in the Indianapolis 500. Although other Canadians have since
scored class victories at Le Mans, John Duff remains the only Canadian to
win the race. And to finish in the top ten in his first attempt during the
early, ultra-dangerous days at Indy, was similarly remarkable. John also set
more than 50 speed and endurance records. In his day, endurance and speed
records over distances of 1,000 or 2,000 miles, for 12 hours or 24 hours,
were considered astounding achievements and received big play in the press.
His greatest successes came while driving Bentleys. He was a Bentley dealer
and delighted in racing the cars to victory. His race wins and speed records
were responsible, in large part, for establishing the name and reputation of
Bentley cars as reliable sports/touring machines. An accident forced his
retirement from racing and he settled in California, teaching swordsmanship
to many of the movie stars of that time. An enthusiastic equestrian, he was
killed in a riding accident in England in 1958.
More about this member :: Back to top Mike Duff (1994)
Mike Duff is the only Canadian to ever win a World Championship Motorcycle Grand Prix. In all, he won three, the first was the 1964 250 c.c. Belgian G.P. in 1965. He finished second in the 250 c.c. World Championship with victories in the Dutch Tourist Trophy race and the Finnish G.P. A couple of serious crashes - one that required hip replacement surgery - cut short Mike's European career in 1967. But he came home in time to borrow a bike and finish third in the first ever Canadian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Mosport in 1967 behind the legendary Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini.
More about this member :: Back to top Yvon Duhamel (1999)
Yvon Duhamel carried the No. 1 plate in every form of motorcycle racing in Canada from dirt track to road racing - in most cases, a number of times. Five times, he won the White Trophy, the highest award in Canadian motorcycle racing. He won the 250 cc Daytona Classic in 1969, won a World Championship race at Assen, Holland, in 1974, and the Grand Prix of Canada in 1981. His snowmobile accomplishments include a World Championship in 1970.
More about this member :: Back to top Doug Duncan (1996)
Doug Duncan was Canada's most innovative and successful race car builder. He built cars for Ted Hogan (super modifieds and stock cars, including the first tube-frame stock car in Canada), Warren Coniam (the super modified that won the 1987 Oswego Classic) and many top Canadian oval racers. He also built cars driven by Danny Shaw, Grant Clark and Peter Ryan for the fabled Comstock Racing Team.
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